Instructions for Authors
Scope and Purpose
The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism (JCA) focuses on the multiple and changing manifestations of antisemitism in the contemporary world. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, secular and religious antisemitism, antisemitism on the left and the right of the political spectrum, and antizionism.
We invite scholars from disciplines across the social sciences and humanities to submit: 1) original research articles reporting qualitative or quantitative research data; 2) conceptual or theoretical articles; 3) research notes; 4) book reviews; 5) personal perspectives; and 6) accounts of or responses to academic controversies within the field of antisemitism studies. Contributions from activists and independent scholars are very welcome.
The Journal is run by an international team of editors and is rigorously peer-reviewed. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars from diverse political and intellectual backgrounds can analyze, debate, and formulate effective responses to the ever-evolving and insidious threat of antisemitism.
Submitting Your Article Manuscript
JCA generally publishes articles of 5,000–10,000 words of text, including notes. Research Notes should be between 2,000–5,000 words. Longer submissions are welcome but please contact the editors to discuss this prior to submitting your manuscript.
Articles must be submitted as electronic file attachments in Microsoft Word format.
As articles are peer-reviewed anonymously, your article should be submitted without any identifying information (your name, institutional affiliation, or references to previous publications (e.g., “see my chapter…”). Only the title should appear on the title page.
All articles that are accepted must be revised to conform to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style prior to publication.
When you submit a manuscript to JCA we will take it to imply that the manuscript has not already been published or submitted elsewhere. If similar or related work has been published or submitted elsewhere, then you must provide a copy with the submitted manuscript. You may not submit your manuscript elsewhere while it is under consideration at JCA.
To submit an article, or ask a question about the submission process, please send a message to jca@academicstudiespress.com.
Submitting Your Book Review Manuscript
JCA generally publishes book reviews of approximately 2,500–4,500 words of text. Do NOT include endnotes.
Reviews must be submitted as electronic file attachments in Microsoft Word format.
All reviews that are accepted must be revised to conform to the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style prior to publication, with the following exceptions:
Quotations from the book being reviewed should be followed by the page number in brackets. For example: Jane Smith notes in the fourth chapter that “Boston is the largest city in Massachusetts.” (321)
In lieu of footnotes or endnotes, internal mentions of other publications should be formatted parenthetically as follows: (see for example, Hannah Johnson, Blood Libel: The Ritual Murder Accusation at the Limit of Jewish History, [University of Michigan Press, 2012])
Include bibliographic information about the book at the head of the review as follows: Contemporary Left Antisemitism. By David Hirsh. Routledge, 2017. 176 pages. £16.99.
Include your name and institution at the end of the review.
To submit a review, or ask a question about the submission process, please send a message to jca@academicstudiespress.com.
Formatting
Block quotations should be indented evenly.
Make certain that sub-headings within the article are marked clearly.
Quotations should be indicated with double, and not single, quotation marks.
Spell “antisemitism,” “antisemite,” “antizionism,” and “antizionist” without a hyphen, except when the original spelling in a quote or in a publication title contains a hyphen.
Dates should be formatted in month/day/year style, e.g.: April 6, 2015
Preparing Your Accepted Manuscript for Submission
For articles only: Along with your revised manuscript that conforms to the style and formatting guidelines below, please include a revised title page that includes your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and mailing address; a 150-word abstract of the article; a 75-word biographical sketch.
JCA follows the most recent edition of the Chicago Manual of Style (currently, the seventeenth edition). All references should follow Chicago Style’s “Notes and Bibliography” documentation system, with the exception of book reviews (see above). Please consult the Manual for any specific questions (in most cases, you should have free access to the online Manual through your library).
Transliteration
JCA asks that you use the Encyclopedia Judaica system for transliterating Hebrew.
In transliteration, a straight apostrophe is sometimes used to represent Hebrew Ayin or Aleph. Please make certain that the same symbol is used consistently whenever Ayin/Aleph appear.
Above all, please make sure that a single transliteration system is used uniformly in your manuscript.
Permissions
Permissions, for print and digital content, including images, are to be acquired by the author. JCA is happy to provide any necessary documentation required to arrange for permissions. If you need to quote extensively from other works or wish to include other copyrighted material, you should seek permission (in writing) from the copyright holder. In most cases this will be the publisher of the original work; the author or originator of the original material should be asked for permission as well. Authors are responsible for taking care of reproduction fees, if any.
Images
Line art (e.g. line drawings, maps, and diagrams) should be submitted either in TIFF format with a minimum resolution of 1200 dpi or in EPS format. Photographs should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi and should be submitted in TIFF or JPEG format.
Include a list of captions to illustrations, diagrams, maps etc. Numbers should clearly indicate to which photograph each caption belongs. Credit and permissions information should be included in the captions.
Tables and figures should be submitted with the manuscript as separate files.
Copyediting and Proofreading
Once you receive your copyedited manuscript, you will have ten working days to review and return your article. You will also have ten working days to review and return your proofs.
If you have any questions about submitting or revising any part of your manuscript, please contact jca@academicstudiespress.com.
Open Access
Academic Studies Press is committed to helping researchers publish, distribute, and advertise their work in digital format for a broad readership. Articles published in Open Access undergo rigorous peer-review and appear alongside other articles in the print edition of the journal.
Academic Studies Press publishes articles Open Access under the terms of Creative Commons Licenses. Our standard license, the CC BY-NC, allows readers to excerpt and share your work for non-commercial purposes (such as a lecture or blog-post) so long as you are properly cited. Other licenses forbid any derivatives from being made of your work (e.g., CC BY-NC-ND), while others allow substantive changes and commercial reuse (e.g., CC BY). We are happy to help you select the license that is most appropriate for your article and meets the requirements of your institution or funding agency.
Learn more about Open Access costs and the institutions and agencies that fund Open Access publishing here.
Artificial Intelligence and the Use of AI Technology
The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in manuscript preparation - an overview
The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism recognizes the potential of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies (“AI Tools”), when used responsibly, to help researchers work efficiently, gain critical insights fast and achieve better outcomes. Increasingly, these tools, including AI agents and deep research tools, are helping researchers to synthesize complex literature, provide an overview of a field or research question, identify research gaps, generate ideas and provide tailored support for tasks such as content organization and improving language and readability. Authors preparing a manuscript for The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism can use AI Tools to support them. However, these tools must never be used as a substitute for human critical thinking, expertise and evaluation. AI Tools should always be applied with human oversight and control. Ultimately, authors are responsible and accountable for the contents of their work. This includes accountability for:
Carefully reviewing and verifying the accuracy, comprehensiveness, and impartiality of all AI-generated output (including checking the sources, as AI-generated references can be incorrect or fabricated).
Editing and adapting all material thoroughly to ensure the manuscript represents the author’s authentic and original contribution and reflects their own analysis, interpretation, insights and ideas.
Ensuring the use of any tools or sources, AI-based or otherwise, is made clear and transparent to readers — for the use of AI Tools we require a disclosure statement upon submission.
Ensuring the manuscript is developed in a way that safeguards data privacy, intellectual property and other rights, by checking the terms and conditions of any AI Tool that is used.
Responsible use of AI Tools
Authors must check the terms and conditions of any AI Tool that they use to ensure that the privacy and confidentiality of their data and inputs, including their unpublished manuscripts, is maintained. Particular care should be taken with any personally identifiable data. Images that duplicate or refer to existing copyrighted images, real people, or others’ identifiable products or brands must not be generated, nor any likeness of an individual’s voice. Authors should check for factual errors and for any potential bias.
Authors should also check the terms and conditions of any AI Tool they wish to use to ensure that, they only grant to the AI Tool the right to use their materials to provide the service to them and that they do not grant to the AI Tool any other rights to the materials that they input into the AI Tool (including without limitation the right to train the AI Tool on those materials). They must also ensure that the AI Tool does not impose constraints on the use of outputs from the AI Tool in a way that could restrict the subsequent publication of the relevant article.
Disclosure
Authors should disclose the use of AI Tools for manuscript preparation in a separate AI declaration statement in their manuscript upon submission and a statement will appear in the published work. Authors should document their use of AI, including the name of the AI Tool used, the purpose of the use, and the extent of their oversight. Declaring the use of AI Tools supports transparency and trust between authors, readers, reviewers, editors and contributors and facilitates compliance with the terms of use of the relevant AI Tool. Basic checks of grammar, spelling and punctuation need no declaration. AI use in the research process should be declared and described in detail in the methods section.
Authorship
Authors should not list AI Tools as an author or co-author, nor cite AI Tools as an author. Authorship implies responsibilities and tasks that can only be attributed to and performed by humans. Each (co-) author is accountable for ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved and authorship requires the ability to approve the final version of the work and agree to its submission. Authors are also responsible for ensuring that the work is original and has not been previously published, that the stated authors qualify for authorship, and the work does not infringe third party rights, and should familiarize themselves with The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism’s Ethics in Publishing policy before they submit.
The use of generative AI and AI-assisted tools in figures, images and artwork
We do not permit the use of Generative AI or AI-assisted tools to create or alter images in submitted manuscripts. This may include enhancing, obscuring, moving, removing, or introducing a specific feature within an image or figure. Adjustments of brightness, contrast, or color balance are acceptable if and as long as they do not obscure or eliminate any information present in the original. Image forensics tools or specialized software might be applied to submitted manuscripts to identify suspected image irregularities.
The only exception is if the use of AI or AI-assisted tools is part of the research design or research methods (such as in AI-assisted imaging approaches to generate or interpret the underlying research data, for example in the field of biomedical imaging). If this is done, such use must be described in a reproducible manner in the methods section. This should include an explanation of how the AI or AI-assisted tools were used in the image creation or alteration process, and the name of the model or tool, version and extension numbers, and manufacturer. Authors should adhere to the AI software’s specific usage policies and ensure correct content attribution. Where applicable, authors could be asked to provide pre-AI-adjusted versions of images and/or the composite raw images used to create the final submitted versions, for editorial assessment.
The use of generative AI or AI-assisted tools in the production of artwork such as for graphical abstracts is not permitted. The use of generative AI in the production of cover art may in some cases be allowed, if the author obtains prior permission from the journal editor and publisher, can demonstrate that all necessary rights have been cleared for the use of the relevant material, and ensures that there is correct content attribution.
For reviewers
The use of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the journal peer review process
When a researcher is invited to review another researcher’s paper, the manuscript must be treated as a confidential document. Reviewers should not upload a submitted manuscript or any part of it into a generative AI tool as this may violate the authors’ confidentiality and proprietary rights and, where the paper contains personally identifiable information, may breach data privacy rights.
This confidentiality requirement extends to the peer review report, as it may contain confidential information about the manuscript and/or the authors. For this reason, reviewers should not upload their peer review report into an AI tool, even if it is just for the purpose of improving language and readability.
Peer review is at the heart of the scientific ecosystem and The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism abides by the highest standards of integrity in this process. Reviewing a scientific manuscript implies responsibilities that can only be attributed to humans. Generative AI or AI-assisted technologies should not be used by reviewers to assist in the scientific review of a paper as the critical thinking and original assessment needed for peer review is outside of the scope of this technology and there is a risk that the technology will generate incorrect, incomplete or biased conclusions about the manuscript. The reviewer is responsible and accountable for the content of the review report.
The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism’s AI author policy states that authors are allowed to use generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the manuscript preparation process before submission, but only with appropriate oversight and disclosure, as per our instructions in The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism’s Guide for Authors. Reviewers can find such disclosure at the bottom of the paper in a separate section before the list of references.
Please note that The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism owns identity protected AI-assisted technologies which conform to the RELX Responsible AI Principles, such as those used during the screening process to conduct completeness and plagiarism checks and identify suitable reviewers. These in-house or licensed technologies respect author confidentiality. Our programs are subject to rigorous evaluation of bias and are compliant with data privacy and data security requirements.
The Journal of Contemporary Antisemitism embraces new AI-driven technologies that support reviewers and editors in the editorial process, and we continue to develop and adopt in-house or licensed technologies that respect authors’, reviewers’ and editors’ confidentiality and data privacy rights.